Use The Reliability Monitor In Windows 7
Buried within the Control Panel's Action Center is the Reliability Monitor.
(Type reliability monitor in the Start Search field and press ENTER.) As the
name implies, the monitor itself won't improve Windows performance, but it will
give you clues to help troubleshoot Windows application problems and find a
remedy so Windows can perform better in the future. Windows ranks overall
reliability on a scale from 1 (lowest reliability) to 10. The line graph and
numerical ratings don't give you much information, apart from confirming your
worst fears. ("I knew this system was falling apart!") More useful is being
able to corroborate informational events, shown with an "i" in a blue circle
with subsequent increases in application failures. For instance, if you see
that Windows installed a security update on Monday followed by a significant
increase in app crashes, you can probably guess that the update is to blame and
then roll back the software change.
David Ferrin
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